Please join us on an expedition to twist your geographical perspective through the lens of sound and movement collaboration. Dance artist Leyya Tawil and Amsterdam-based music designer Lars J. Brouwer are traveling city to city, remapping specific locations through direct experience. The result is an ongoing series of music and dance events, both compositional and improvisational in nature. In this 5-day workshop, participants are led through a rigorous location-based collaborative process, culminating in an ensemble performance of the The Grand Re-Map: San Francisco during the KUNST-STOFF arts/fest. Studio practices will include collaborative improvisations, score building, sound/movement contextualization methods. For its pilot tour in Spring 2012, The Grand Re-Map traveled to Amsterdam, New York City, New Orleans, Detroit, Oakland and Atlanta (ATL). By documenting all events on line, the artists gradually replace a geographic map with an experiential one. Our San Francisco performance at KUNST-STOFF arts/fest will be a part of this widely developing project. www.theGrandReMap.com

Leyya Mona Tawil (US) is a dance artist, educator, and the artistic director of DANCE ELIXIR. The company produces collaborative art in the form of live multidisciplinary productions, experimental films and research-based projects throughout the world. Leyya’s work has been presented in 9 countries throughout Europe and the Arab World, and 17 cities in the United States. International highlights include performances at the Syrian National Opera House (Damascus), CESTA/Spektrum (Czech Republic) and Studio Emad Eddin (Cairo). Leyya has held faculty positions at Middlebury College (VT), the University of Michigan and the University of San Francisco. She continues to offer dance workshops worldwide while also co-directing the Temescal Arts Center: a venue for contemporary performance in Oakland, California. danceElixirLIVE.org

Lars J. Brouwer (Amsterdam, NL) is an independent music designer specializing in music for motion and interaction. He was awarded the Bachelor of Music (with honors) in 2009, focusing on music composition, production and technology, and the Master of Music in 2011, focusing on art direction from a music perspective for multidisciplinary projects, both from the Utrecht School of the Arts. Notable projects include developing and composing for a unique sixty speaker sound system for fashion label NON by Kim during the Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2010 and compositions made from exclusively naval sounds, on show for 400.000 visitors during the World Port Days in Rotterdam. Lars has taught at the Utrecht School of the Arts, the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory and is a mentor at ‘Shaken not Stirred’, a collaborative multidisciplinary work week for professional artists in Belgium. www.larsjbrouwer.nl